The Knight's Mysterious Maid
Chapter 140: Fun (3)

Chapter 140: Fun (3)

"You are going to kill me, aren’t you?"

"Annalise," Rafael warned, turning around to face her. It was only now he saw the distance she placed between them. She was more than four arm’s lengths away from him. "Why are you all the way back there?"

"So I can have a good chance to live if you try to-"

"For the last time, I am not trying to kill you. If you keep this up, I might. Come here, Annalise," Rafael said, pointing right in front of him. "Why would I even want to kill you?"

"Because I questioned the way the kingdom works and a few other things. If you get rid of me, you get rid of your problem with Delilah. I think we should stay like this so I can keep an eye out for anyone following us. How am I not to think you are trying to kill me when you are leading me into trees where there is no one else?" Annalise questioned, looking back to see if Thomas was still stalking her.

They might have to kill Rafael now.

"Annalise," Rafael sighed, touching his temple. How was it possible that he liked her? ’How?’ The question echoed in his mind.

He heard of knights sometimes losing their minds after being at war and the long travels getting to them, but the only thing he only suffered was his inability to get a peaceful night’s rest. Something else had to be off about him to have feelings for Annalise who made him want to pull his hair out so many times.

"I am not trying to kill you. You asked me what I enjoyed and I am taking you there. Come closer before I call this night short and return to the manor," he added.

"So," Annalise said, taking small steps toward him. "There is a big market full of interesting things and what you enjoy is walking through trees? That is normal I suppose."

"Weren’t you the one speaking of enjoying nature?" Rafael asked. It sounded like her thoughts were all over the place.

"Well yes, but when there are so many interesting things being sold, it is better to be there than here. You can continue walking now. I will protect you from here. I don’t believe you are trying to kill me. At least not right now when so many have seen us together, but then again, they don’t know who I am to say they saw me with you. And I only have my brother here to worry about me," Annalise said, trying to think of how anyone would uncover her death.

Rafael continued to walk again so he wouldn’t have to listen to Annalise solve her own death. Soon, he heard her following him once again. Before he thought her parents had to worry about her being far from home, but now he started to think they must be enjoying not having to deal with her.

"I used to enjoy walking around the festival with my mother when I was young. I was like you enjoying the sight of treats all around. My mother would buy a few and then we would come out here to eat them. It was around the time everyone had questions about the Callahans they had not heard much of. It is peaceful here so my mother liked to sit down to enjoy it before we would go back out to the market. I liked to lay around out here," Rafael said right as they reached a small open field.

"My skin would itch all the way back home, but it was still fun to do each time there was a festival. There was a big rock my mother would sit on and watch me. Then when we got home she would pick the grass from my hair."

"You sounded like such a happy child. What happened?" Annalise asked, not realising how it came off as a jab to his personality now.

"Children grow up and they have responsibility. I have no time to be rolling around in the grass or attending festivals. There is much to do around the kingdom. Like you said, the new laws don’t seem to be changing much," Rafael said, looking up at the sky which always looked much clearer when he stood here.

"I don’t think that is because you don’t have time. You just do not like being around people so you use being in charge of knights as an excuse. Just say that you want to be alone. You can still have fun by yourself. Being alone doesn’t mean you have to be stuck in your study. You can come out here to run through the grass by yourself. I won’t judge you since I have run through plenty of fields even at this age. Please forgive me for doing this," Annalise said, pushing Rafael’s back to get him to fall and roll down the field.

"Oh," she said after he didn’t budge. "How is it possible that you did not even stumble forward?"

"Were you trying to push me? I thought you were doing a terrible job of trying to hug me," Rafael teased.

Annalise glared at Rafael for the insult. She had not used a lot of effort to push him, but he should have at least moved a bit. To see him still standing in place hurt her ego. She wasn’t training as much as she used to since she had to spend most of the day working, but she still felt she should be able to push the giant in front of her.

"We must do something about you being able to touch me as you like and me having to get your permission to touch you. Is it because of Connor that you do not like to be touched or something else? If it is another reason and personal, you do not need to answer me," Rafael said, so she wouldn’t feel she had to tell him.

"Nothing happened to me if that is what you are assuming. I just have a dislike for being touched without warning. I cannot explain it well to you. You have been kind so I suppose it is only fair that you can touch me as I touched you just now. I don’t want to be unfair in touching you as I like but you cannot do the same. You can stay here, but I am going to run around," Annalise said, walking forward to the tall grass.

There was no one around to watch her or Rafael so there was no need to worry about someone calling them crazy for running around in grass.

The small field was out of sight from the many homes and the night sky made Annalise feel like she was at home for a moment.

Annalise started off with a slow run because of her dress, but once she felt the cold air blowing against her skin, she increased her pace and let go of the dress to let it flow with the wind. How could Rafael not want to do this now when it helped to calm your mind and made you feel free of any problems?

She turned around, expecting to see Rafael where she left him, but was startled by the sight of him running behind her, and reaching out to grab her hand. "What are you- Oh," her mouth fell open and her chest felt lighter as she was suddenly falling.

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